Simone de Beauvoir

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

"‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes."

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."